LARS BLACKMORE Posts

June 25, 2012

Oh, boy. This one is a biggie. The “Heart of Darkness” is of course also the “Heart of Nastiness.” Ebola, typhoid, yellow fever, bilharzia, gorilla cooties – you name it, people will claim you can catch it in the jungle just by breathing the air. Or not. I mean, really: 98 percent of this stuff…

June 7, 2012

Four million steps from Georgia, Appalachian Trail thru-hiker Smooth Sailin’ is heading North to Katahdin in Maine, about 400 miles away. Behind him lies 1700 miles of simple needs: food, ­shelter, laundry, occasional ­showers.  Next stop is Hanover, an AT hiker favorite with its cheap restaurants, ample services, and a rich history of AT involvement.…

June 7, 2012

Equal parts gingerbread cookies and painful reminders of our hectic and commercialized lives, there’s no getting around the Holiday season. For starters, it is a ritual that requires an intimidating amount of shopping. This is ‘the big one’: 20 percent of all retail sales happen over the Christmas season. You can take on that particular…

June 7, 2012

Covering the entire Midwest and Northeast, the early February storm had the weather channel prophets airing doomsday predictions with headlines like ­“Colossal Winter Storm Takes Aim.” In fairness, schools in D.C. did shut down for almost a week. But for Andy Hodgdon and his intrepid Norwich highway crew, it simply meant more business as usual.…

June 7, 2012

Grump grump grump. A few years back when our regular gas-powered mower died, I went and did the eco-granola thing and got an electric mower. It’s been a mixed blessing here in tropical Vermont, where green things grow with a righteous fury under the right conditions, and where turning your back on your lawn even…

June 5, 2012

No, that’s not the recipe for a Dartmouth College fraternity party, it’s auction time at Smith’s Auction Gallery in Plainfield, NH, an old school New England auction house where computer bidding is unheard of, but where a brisk business is being done in donuts and coffee as hundreds of potential buyers cram into the gallery…

June 4, 2012

I foråret 1999 lavede jeg billeder til Aktuelts historie om kultur-fremstødet “The Danish Wave” der løb af stablen i New York. 

June 4, 2012

Sammen med Lene Møller, Se & Hørs korrespondent i USA, fulgte jeg i efteråret 2000 danske Malene Mathiesen fra hendes polterabend i SoHo til hendes bryllup med Harry Belafonte’s søn i Central Park. 

June 4, 2012

I sommeren 2000 lavede jeg billederne da freelance journalist Lene Møller skrev en go’ historie til Se & Hør om den danske sangerinde Grith Højfeldt og hendes liv i New York.

June 4, 2012

Lene Møller skrev historien “New York efter 11. September” i sommeren 2002 til det forlængst hedengangne rejseblad, Vagabond, og jeg havde fornøjelsen af lavede billeder for hende. Vi havde arbejdet sammen på tidligere historier i New York, men den her var lidt speciel, i og med at jeg var en del af hendes historie.  {gallery}vagabond{/gallery}